What's standing between you and a more usable website? Five minutes.

Date & Time

Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
(UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

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Description

Auditing a website is a big, daunting task. That's why we're sharing our five-minute webpage analysis.

This process was created to use with our web editors and student workers during a web redesign project. In this presentation, we will share our exercise of walking through the following elements of a webpage: title, headings, readability, CTA, findability and brand alignment. While none of these topics alone are groundbreaking, putting them on a rubric you can use in five minutes gives you a starting point — instead of being overwhelmed by the urge to start over.

Our aim is to make our pages 10% better in five minutes.

You'll find that optimizing these six elements of any page can make it more usable, accessible and findable. This process is a quick, easy gut check with the potential to make a big impact.

Near the end of the presentation, we will lead a guided exercise for participants to select a live page from their site and complete this rubric, step-by-step. This will be a practical, hands-on session.

Mackenzie Huber Whitney Tabbert
Type

session

Intended audience

beginner

Tags

accessibility, usability, UX/UI

Delivery

online

About the watch parties

Watch parties will take place at 1 p.m Central time on the last Tuesday of every month. All paid members are welcome to attend. Access the full party schedule.

Slack channel

#heweb-watch-party

All HighEdWeb members are welcome to join the HighEdWeb Slack Workspace.

Organizer

Kristin Gasser
Web developer
Arizona State University